Haunted Rome with a Ghost Hunter Kit and a Certificate

The format is the difference here. This is not a guide talking while you listen: the group is handed an interactive Ghost Hunter Kit and taught what to look for, so the walk turns into something you do rather than something you attend. Video recreations play at the stops, which works better in a dark street than it sounds. The route through the old centre stops where most people speed up. A chapel decorated with human bone. A bridge that was used to display the executed. The house of the city's most notorious executioner, Mastro Titta. A former beauty shop where the cosmetics killed the customers. An apartment block with the worst reputation in Rome. A Spanish church with a scandal attached. And the madonnelle, the small Madonnas fixed to street corners, which were installed partly to discourage robbery. Groups are small and the material is murder, revenge and things that ended badly for everyone involved. Finish the walk and you get a Certificate of Survival, which is the sort of thing that sounds silly until you are holding one at eleven at night on the Ponte Sant'Angelo. Arrive ten minutes early: latecomers are not refunded.